THE FLOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does the Flood mean? 

• THE FLOOD (noun)
  The noun THE FLOOD has 1 sense:

1. (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings

  Familiarity information: THE FLOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THE FLOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

Noachian deluge; Noah's flood; Noah and the Flood; the Flood

Hypernyms ("the Flood" is a kind of...):

alluvion; deluge; flood; inundation (the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land)

Domain category:

Bible; Book; Christian Bible; Good Book; Holy Scripture; Holy Writ; Scripture; Word; Word of God (the sacred writings of the Christian religions)

 Context examples 

If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While Ea’s message seems to promise a rain of food, its hidden meaning warns of the Flood.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

For example, the researchers found that one previously declining dominant soil species increased slowly following the flood year.

(Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, National Science Foundation)

Then the flood seemed suddenly to subside and I was breathing the good air again.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He sat down, his ears keenly alert to the flood of protest and indignation his words had created.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It is said, too, that he can only pass running water at the slack or the flood of the tide.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If the flood annoyed him, so much the better.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The flood of fight ebbed down in him, and, releasing his prey, he turned tail and scampered on across the open in inglorious retreat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He was a harp; all life that he had known and that was his consciousness was the strings; and the flood of music was a wind that poured against those strings and set them vibrating with memories and dreams.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She stood with her figure outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing question.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)